Having recently switched to a smarter-phone, I'm a bit annoyed at the bad battery life. So I do check on the battery regularly.
With the standard android settings->battery app I can see that the screen is a big battery-drainer. That is unavoidable. I understand that.
Then there are a lot of apps that seem to use a few percent of the total battery power. Fine.
Inbetween these is an app called "HELP" that has now used 29% of my charge, while the screen has used 30%. i.e. I'd get 50% more batterylife if that app would not be there.
Now if I'd been browsing "help" files all day I'd understand that this is the "help" app. However I have not once accessed a helpfile on my phone.
Checking the app from the "app info" menu shows that it is a hefty app. It has all kinds of far-reaching permissions like: "make phone calls, this can cost you money" and "change secure storage".
Besides this, I don't remember seeing this app on the first few days that I had my phone. Maybe I installed a "free" app, that decided to install say a "spyware" app that monitors what I do and hides under the "HELP" name? (and may at one point decide to cost me money by phoning someone paid number).
Google searching for "help app" is polluted with lots of pages with people asking for "help with the xxx app".... So if it is malware, hiding under "help" is a smart move......
With the standard android settings->battery app I can see that the screen is a big battery-drainer. That is unavoidable. I understand that.
Then there are a lot of apps that seem to use a few percent of the total battery power. Fine.
Inbetween these is an app called "HELP" that has now used 29% of my charge, while the screen has used 30%. i.e. I'd get 50% more batterylife if that app would not be there.
Now if I'd been browsing "help" files all day I'd understand that this is the "help" app. However I have not once accessed a helpfile on my phone.
Checking the app from the "app info" menu shows that it is a hefty app. It has all kinds of far-reaching permissions like: "make phone calls, this can cost you money" and "change secure storage".
Besides this, I don't remember seeing this app on the first few days that I had my phone. Maybe I installed a "free" app, that decided to install say a "spyware" app that monitors what I do and hides under the "HELP" name? (and may at one point decide to cost me money by phoning someone paid number).
Google searching for "help app" is polluted with lots of pages with people asking for "help with the xxx app".... So if it is malware, hiding under "help" is a smart move......
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